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Author | : Mateusz Stróżyński |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2024-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1009494864 |
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This study offers an innovative understanding of the central role of the act of contemplation in the philosophy of Plotinus.
Author | : Arthur Hilary Armstrong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107656737 |
Download The Architecture of the Intelligible Universe in the Philosophy of Plotinus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 1940 book assesses how the philosopher Plotinus' hierarchy of reality fits into the wider universal order, and how the historical and philosophical tradition gave rise to Plotinus' own philosophies. The book also supplies a bibliography broken down by topic for those who wish to pursue any aspect of the text in greater depth.
Author | : John N. Deck |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1967-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1442638184 |
Download Nature, Contemplation, and the One Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy as it first came to be known in the Christian West. In Nature, Contemplation, and the One, Professor Deck has undertaken a reappraisal of Plotinus' thought from the standpoint of a central doctrine in the Enneads, that of nature as contemplation. This new view enables him to show that the producing of the physical world by means of contemplation is an internally consistent doctrine with ramifications throughout the Plotinian view of being, causality, and the generation of a plural universe by the self-subsistent One. The result is a systematic account of Plotinus' major teachings, and a fresh view of their meaning and philosophic importance. Professor Deck has appended a new translation of the parts of the Enneads which are central to the doctrine of nature as contemplation, and his study proceeds by careful reference to the original texts. Students, philosophers, and historians will welcome this important and unusually clear-headed approach to a major figure in Western thought.
Author | : Plotinus |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Download Five Books of Plotinus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Barrie Fleet |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2012-06-06 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972784 |
Download PLOTINUS Ennead IV.8 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus was much exercised by Plato's doctrines of the soul. In this treatise, at chapter 1 line 27, he talks of "e;the divine Plato, who has said in many places in his works many noble things about the soul and its arrival here, so that we can hope for some clarity from him. So what does the philosopher say? It is clear that he does not always speak with sufficient consistency for us to make out his intentions with any ease."e; The issue in this treatise is one that has puzzled students of Plato from ancient to modern times-and is indeed a popular topic for undergraduate essays even today: Why should the philosopher, who has ascended through a long and painful process of dialectic to "e;assimilation to the divine,"e; ever descend back into the body? Plotinus himself is said by Porphyry to have attained such a state of other-worldly transcendence on at least four occasions during his lifetime, so this was a very real and personal issue for him. In this treatise we see him grappling with it.
Author | : D. M. Hutchinson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2018-04-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108424767 |
Download Plotinus on Consciousness Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examines the first theory of consciousness in Western philosophy, dispelling the dogma that consciousness studies begins with Descartes.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : Ethics |
ISBN | : |
Download Five Books of Plotinus, Viz. On Felicity; On the Nature and Origin of Evil; On Providence; On Nature, Contemplation, and the One; and on the Descent of the Soul: Translated from the Greek, with an Introduction ... By T. Taylor. MS. Notes Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-02-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019928170X |
Download Plotinus on Intellect Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus (205-269 AD) is considered the founder of Neoplatonism, the dominant philosophical movement of late antiquity, and a rich seam of current scholarly interest. Whilst Plotinus' influence on the subsequent philosophical tradition was enormous, his ideas can also be seen as the culmination of some implicit trends in the Greek tradition from Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics.Emilsson's in-depth study focuses on Plotinus' notion of Intellect, which comes second in his hierarchical model of reality, after the One, unknowable first cause of everything. As opposed to ordinary human discursive thinking, Intellect's thought is all-at-once, timeless, truthful and a direct intuition into 'things themselves'; it is presumably not even propositional. Emilsson discusses and explains this strong notion of non-discursive thought and explores Plotinus' insistence that this mustbe the primary form of thought.Plotinus' doctrine of Intellect raises a host of questions that Emilsson addresses. First, Intellect's thought is described as an attempt to grasp the One and at the same time as self-thought. How are these two claims related? How are they compatible? What lies in Plotinus' insistence that Intellect's thought is a thought of itself? Second, Plotinus gives two minimum requirements of thought: that it must involve a distinction between thinker and object of thought, and that the object itselfmust be varied. How are these two pluralist claims related? Third, what is the relation between Intellect as a thinker and Intellect as an object of thought? Plotinus' position here seems to amount to a form of idealism, and this is explored.
Author | : Laela Zwollo |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2018-11-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004387803 |
Download St. Augustine and Plotinus: the Human Mind as Image of the Divine Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Augustine and Plotinus: the Human Mind as Image of the Divine Laela Zwollo explores the doctrines of the image of God (the human soul or intellect) of two of the most influential thinkers of late antiquity: the Christian Augustine of Hippo and the Neo-Platonist Plotinus.
Author | : Andrew Smith |
Publisher | : Parmenides Publishing |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2018-01-31 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1930972970 |
Download PLOTINUS EnneadV.8 On Intelligible Beauty Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Plotinus' Ennead V.8, originally part of a single work (with III.8, V.5, and II.9), provides the foundation for a positive view of the universe as an image of divine beauty against the Gnostic rejection of the world. Although it emphasizes the cosmic dimension of beauty, it is, as are most treatises of Plotinus, concerned with the individual soul. The notion that the artist has within him an idea of beauty that derives directly from the intelligible world in fact coincides with his theory that each one of us has access to Intellect through his or her own intellect. It is the exploitation of this theme that forms the central dynamic of the treatise, with its stress on our ability to "e;see"e; and be one with the intelligible world and its beauty.